openfiledialog

Customizing OpenFileDialog

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Yes, that’s possible, I did the same kind of customization with SaveFileDialog successfully and it’s pretty interesting. Follow the following links: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dialog/OpenFileDialogEx.aspx http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/getsavefilename.aspx http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dialog/CustomizeFileDialog.aspx Also my own questions too will help you: Change default arrangement of Save and Cancel buttons in SaveFileDialog How to stop overwriteprompt when creating SaveFileDialog using GetSaveFileName You have to use … Read more

C# – How to customize OpenFileDialog to select multiple folders and files?

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If you use the FileNames property instead of the FileName property, you get a string array of each file selected, you select multiple files using the shift key. Like so: private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { OpenFileDialog x = new OpenFileDialog(); x.Multiselect = true; x.ShowDialog(); string[] result = x.FileNames; foreach (string y in result) … Read more

Select either a file or folder from the same dialog in .NET

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Technically, it is possible. The shell dialog used by FolderBrowseDialog has the ability to return both files and folders. Unfortunately, that capability isn’t exposed in .NET. Not even reflection can poke the required option flag. To make it work, you’d have to P/Invoke SHBrowseForFolder() with the BIF_BROWSEINCLUDEFILES flag turned on in BROWSEINFO.ulFlags (value = 0x4000). … Read more

Open a workbook using FileDialog and manipulate it in Excel VBA

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Thankyou Frank.i got the idea. Here is the working code. Option Explicit Private Sub CommandButton1_Click() Dim directory As String, fileName As String, sheet As Worksheet, total As Integer Dim fd As Office.FileDialog Set fd = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFilePicker) With fd .AllowMultiSelect = False .Title = “Please select the file.” .Filters.Clear .Filters.Add “Excel 2003”, “*.xls?” If .Show = … Read more

Open file dialog and select a file using WPF controls and C#

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Something like that should be what you need private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { // Create OpenFileDialog Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog dlg = new Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog(); // Set filter for file extension and default file extension dlg.DefaultExt = “.png”; dlg.Filter = “JPEG Files (*.jpeg)|*.jpeg|PNG Files (*.png)|*.png|JPG Files (*.jpg)|*.jpg|GIF Files (*.gif)|*.gif”; // Display OpenFileDialog by calling ShowDialog method Nullable<bool> … Read more

Open File Dialog MVVM

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Long story short: The solution is to show user interactions from a class, that is part of the view component. This means, such a class must be a class that is unknown to the view model and therefore can’t be invoked by the view model. The solution of course can involve code-behind implementations as code-behind … Read more

How do I use OpenFileDialog to select a folder?

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Basically you need the FolderBrowserDialog class: Prompts the user to select a folder. This class cannot be inherited. Example: using(var fbd = new FolderBrowserDialog()) { DialogResult result = fbd.ShowDialog(); if (result == DialogResult.OK && !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(fbd.SelectedPath)) { string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(fbd.SelectedPath); System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(“Files found: ” + files.Length.ToString(), “Message”); } } If you work in WPF you have … Read more

Quick and easy file dialog in Python?

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Tkinter is the easiest way if you don’t want to have any other dependencies. To show only the dialog without any other GUI elements, you have to hide the root window using the withdraw method: import tkinter as tk from tkinter import filedialog root = tk.Tk() root.withdraw() file_path = filedialog.askopenfilename() Python 2 variant: import Tkinter, … Read more